Dr. Mercedes Jover Hernando

Mercedes Jover Hernando holds a PhD in History from the University of Navarra since 1991. In 1995 she was appointed Associate Professor of the department of Art History, where she has taught the subjectsa course focusing on a single topic of Art I (Heritage)", "Protection of Cultural Heritage" and "Museology and Museography".

He has developed his professional career in the Historical Heritage Service of the General Administration of Culture, as Senior Technician of the Museum of Navarra between 1991 and 1995 and as Senior Technician in Movable Goods since 1998. Between 2000 and 2007 she was Head of the Department of Movable Property and until 2010 she was in charge of the Section of Movable Property and Heritage Registry of the department of Culture and Tourism-Principe de Viana Institution. Currently she is the Director of the Museum of Navarre, professionally dedicated to the Historical Heritage of Navarre, she directs part of her activity to the dissemination of Heritage and Art and of the Comunidad Foral. Her work includes the coordination of the publications on El retablo mayor de Santa María la Real de Olite. Historia y Conservación (2006) and El retablo mayor de la Catedral de Tudela. Historia y Conservación (2001); the main altarpiece of San Juan Evangelista de Ochagavía (1999) and the discussion paper entitled "Reflexiones en torno a las Luces y Sombras del Patrimonio Artístico en Navarra", collected in the conference proceedings of the IV congress of History of Navarra. Myth and Reality in the History of Navarre, 1998.

He has also dedicated two articles to The Monastery of Leire and The Romanesque in Estella in the publication El Arte en Navarra in 1994; he has collaborated in the essay of some technical cards of the guide of the Museum of Navarra in 1993 and in the Gran Enciclopedia Navarra in 1990. He has written in the specialized magazine "Príncipe de Viana " about "Un conjunto de pintura mural ilusionista en la Iglesia del Convento de San Francisco de Viana" (1988), about "Los ciclos de Pasión y Pascua en la escultura monumental románica en Navarra" (1987) and "Atrio. Artistic collection of the Parliament of Navarre 1979-2010" (2010). She has participated in congresses and technical conference and has given several lectures focused on the cultural assets of Navarre.

She has been curator of the exhibition Tudela. The bequest of a cathedral, Tudela (2006-2007) and Monastic treasure. The reliquary of the monastery of Fitero restored (2008).

She was a member of the board of trustees of the Fundación para la Conservación del Patrimonio Histórico de Navarra between 2007 and 2012.